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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-18

A notable phase Of railway industry is
a railway tie nursery, situated near the
little town of darlington, Kansas, in the
southern part of that State. 1t is said
to be the largest artificial plantation OF
forest trees in North America, and is
owned by the Southern Pacific. The
different sections have been planted, re-
spectively, two, four, and six years, one
fourth being planted with the ailanthus,
the rest with the catalpa, together with
few of white ash. Those first planted
are now about twenty-five in height, the
last about twelve, and some of the taller
are seven inches through the stem. There
are in all about three million trees, in
full vigor, on the plantation; all were
planted four feet apart each way, to
shade the ground, though eight feet is
the ultimate intention, this plan allowing
three -fourths of the trees to be cut out.
When they are fit for fence posts. When
rather larger it is expected the trees will
make excellent railway ties in great
numbcrs-that is, after thinning-out
process there will be some nine hundred
thousand trees to como to maturity. The
area of this vast railway tie nursery is to
be still fufther increased.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-18
South and West.

FOSTERS OPERA HOUSE at les Moines, one
of the finest theatres in Iowa, has been totally
destroyed by fire. Loss about s35,OO0.
J. H. MARcUM was publicly hanged at
Louisa, KY, for the murder of his cousin,
Fisher Marcum.
The Captain and crew of the British steanl-
ship Benhope have arrived at Savannah.
While sixty miles from land fire broke out,
and 23,6O0 cases Of crude petroleum-each
case containing about forty gallons--began to
explode, hurting the vessels tinlbers hig gh into
the air. The crew took to the boats, and were
picked up by passing vessel. =
A MEMBER of the Michigan Legislature
named Dakin has been expelled for corrupt
practices.
HA1LsroNEs big as goose eggs fell during a
heavy storm at st. Paul, Mimi, inflicting
considerable damage upon property.
SIX oystermen at work in canoes, caught
in squall near Norfolk, Va, ale reported
drowned.
II. S. HAWKINS RepublicanN has been
elected Mayor of Asheville. N. C.
ALFRED ARNOLD was instantly killed by
lightning at Msrysville. Mich, Lena Schlim.
mer was fatally injured. and the hotel at
Whitmore Lake was totally destroyed.
THE City of Ell Paso, Texas, has been
shaken by an earLnquake. Many puuolnSs
were badly cracked
GENERAL SIMON B. BUCKNER, the ex-Con-
federate officer, has been nominated for
Governor by the Kentucky Democrats
THE first rain since November has fallen in
the country surrounding Austin Texas.
VETERANS of the Fifty seventh and Fifty
ninth Massachusetts, regiments have been Wis
ting the battle-fields around Petersburg, Va.
They were accompanied by'e1-Senator Ma
hone, who made an address.
A STORM at Duluth, Mimi, damaged
property to the extent Of nearly slOOooo
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-18

, During the past winter many cowboys
Out of work have taken to "wolhng"-
that is, hunting wild animals. Range
men furnish horses, rifles, ammunition,
strychnine, and free board, and the Ter
ritory pays bounties. Mountain lions and
bear fetch So; gray wolves and timbe,
wolves, Sc; coyotes, 81; prairie dogs, 10
cents; ground squirrels, cents each. In
addition, the boys get ready sale for the
pelts, as follows: Bears and lions, Sc to
$40; wolves, $3.50; coyotes, 81 to $3.50
prairie dogs, to 10 cents; squirrels, II
cspts. County Commissioners in Mon
tana are authorized to appropriate 500
i4 each county, if urgently needed, toex
terminate prairie pups and squirrels. In
Arizona the bounty is: Lynx, 81; boil
cat, 81; small wolf, 81; timber wolf, So
coyote, 81; bear, So: panther, puma, ,cou
gar, mountain lion, s15; jack rabbit, s
cents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-18

In the Office of one of the big clock
concerns is the timepiece by which ma
tive missionary in South Africa preached
his sermons. 1t is brass bowl with a
little hole in the bottom. The bowl is
placed in gourd of water, and when ii
fills and sinks the preacher knows that
an hour has elapsed, and if he is wise he
concludes his sermon. 1t is alleged that
a wag once plugged this timepiece, and
the preacher, seeing it still above water
talked on and on until his sermon
dragged on its appalling length ove1
three hours, which caused so much dis
satisfaction among the congregation tha
the minister purchased a nicklc-platet
So watch and became the marvel ant
envy Of all his townsmen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-18
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

ONLY about 100000 Hebrews are now
living. 1
PEACH growers say there will be big crop
this year. .
BRAZIL is passing through great COM
mercial crisis.
PARIS contains 400 600 married and $4,000
unmarried men. .... =.
A FRESH futter in Confederate bonds IS
noted in London. -.
ITALY has the largest gun in the world. 1t
is 46 feet long and weighs l1s tons.
THERE are 5000 libraries in the United
States containing 1000 volumes or more
OVER twenty States now observe Arbor
day, and 100000 acres Of trees are said to
have been planted.
On the battlefield Of Gettysburg there are
now nearly 100 monuments, costing rfom
$500 to s., 600 each.
IT is intended to hold an international con-
gress on cremation in September OF the pres
ent year in Milan. -.
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. "Step by step," says the New Orleans
Medical ard Surgical Record, 'the cholera
is "creeping through South America,
gathering force as it marches" 1t gives
facts showing the steady march Of the
disease northward, and predicts its
speedy introduction into this country un-
less prompt and effective measures be
taken to bar it out. The warning comes
none to soon. 1t should arouse our au-
thorities, national, State and local, to the
imminence of the danger. Two years
ago, in the face of the cholera ravages in
Europe, our officials made spasmodic
attempt at preparation for resisting its
entrance in the United States. The i'm
mediate peril passed, and vigilance was
relaxed. Now the dread infection is ap-
preaching from another direction, and it
will be possible to bar it out only by the
most determined action. Should it get
a foothold the results may be disastrous
IN the extreme.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-18
BOLD TRAIN ROBBERY.
A Southern Pacific Express Cap.
tured in Arizona.

A Southern Pacific Express Cap.
tured in Arizona.
The western-bound express over the South
ern Pacific, due at Tucson, Arizona, at 1890
p. NJ, was stopped and robbed at Papago Sta
tion, eighteen miles east of Tucson, at about
$50 o'clock the other evening The number
of men engaged in the robbery is variously
estimated from five to eight. Cal
Harper, the engineer, when approach
ing Papago, q side- station, was sig
nailed by red lantern to STOP
He slowed down, and as he approached the
light he noticed obstructions on the track, so
placed that in case he failed to stop, the en-
gine would spread the track and derail
more shots were fired into the express
car, and man with O pistol in each hand
boarded the locomotive and commanded
Harper not to get down. The other robbers
had in the meantime been prying open the
express car, and failing to get it open they
placed stick of giant powder under it and
compelled Harper to light the fuse attached.
This he was obliged to do, but to avoid being
blown up the messenger opened the car and
the robbers took possession. After e1tin-
gushing the fuse they took charge of the car,
uncoupled the engine, baggage and express
car from the remainder OF the train, and
made Harper get on the engine and pull ahead
two lengths. This being done, Harper was
again put off, and the robbers took charge Of
the engine and ran six miles toward Tucson.
Here they Killed the engine and leftit. During
the run the robbers went through the mail
and express cars, but did not get more than
5000. They got two packages of railroad
money, one Of 81 ,210 and one of $500, and also
two packages of postage stamps going to the
postofice at San Francisco
Nothing was known at Tucson Of the rob-
berry until past midnight, when telegram
was received from Pantano, brakeman
having walked back eight miles to that
place. A special was sent down and
the train brought in at six the next
morning. None of the passengers were
molested Some of the passengers knew
nothing of the trouble until after their arri-
val in Tucson. Under Sheriff Shibell was
early at the scene of trouble but could dis
cover nothing that would lead to the iden-
tity of the robbers. The trailers under
Deputy Sheriff NJ. F. Shaw left for the scene
of the robbery. The robbers were believed to
be discharged railroad employees. Although
they compelled Engineer Harper to show
them how to handle the locomotive, it was
believed by their actions in handling the
train that they were familiar with such work.
The Southern Pacific Company and Wells,
Fargo & Co., offered rewards of $1,000 each
for the arrest and conviction of each OF the
robbers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-18

Cincinnati capitalists, looking for nat
ural gas, not long ago bought an option
on farm in Findlay, Ohio, for $65, ,OoO
cash with the privilege of buying out,
right within six months for $3.50, 00O
more. Wells were put down and gas
found, but before the option expired the
farmer died. Then it.was found that the
farm was in his wife's name and that
neither the wife nor children knew any
thing of the $65, 900 that had been paid.
The spectators could not get the place
even for $15O,OOo. 1t is supposed that
the farmer buried the money paid him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-18
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

TESSYsoN's jubilee ode is to be set to
music.
MARY ANDERSON is making a provincial
tour in England.
ANNA DICKINSON is shortly to act again in
"Anne Beleyn."
LONDON has thirty-seven theatres, twenty
seven music halls and fifty-eight concert
rooms.
HAvERLY's M1SsTRELs have done re-
markably large business on the New England
circuit.
THE Viennese statistician has been at work,
and computes that Liszt's compositions num-
Der 1922.
THE Paris theatres are the worst-managed
in Europe, so far as the accommodations for
the public goes.
A CHINESE BAND, playing on their:native
instruments, is one OF the attractions ae
Chicago dime museum.
EMMA NEVADA has made a great hit at
Covent Garden, London, with Maplesons
company, in LA Sonnambula."
JOE HOWARD, JR., is writing a three-act
comedy-drama. The plot and situations are
laid in and about New York and Long
Branch.
NINE RIsToRr, who is now at Rome, is
busily engaged in writing her memoirs" ."
which will date from her first appearance on
the stage.
IT is said that Mr. Denman Thompson's
'tThe Old Homestead" has drawn SlOo, goo IN
fifteen weeks at the Fourteenth Street The
atre, New York.
ACGUsr1N DAILY is arranging to play his
New York Company at the Gaiety Theatre,
London, from late in April, 1883, to the end
of the following August.
THE Princess of Wales. recently delighted
the English people by taking part in a hos
pital concert. She played in several piano
duets, trios and quartets.
IT is reported that Marie Van Iandt has
entirely recovered from her recent illness and
will sing in London this slmmpr, making 9
professional tour in the United States next
| autumn and winter.
IT is a noticeable feature OF the opeIatic
company Colonel Mapleson has engaged foI
London, England, that no fewer than eight
of the female songsters are American girls
or matrons as the case may be.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

BOTH branches of the New York Legislature
have passed the bill providing fer half holi-
day on Saturdays.
A BRAKEMAN was instantly killed, fire
man fatally and an engineer seriously in
jured by q collision between long freight
train and loaded coal train hear Tamaqua,
Penn. The pecuniary damage was estimated
at $4,000.
JAMES N. TAGGART. paying:eller of the
Union Trust Company, Philadelphia, has
absconded. An examination of the books of
less than 100000. Taggart had been leading
fast life.
THE Anti-Poverty Society has been organ
McGlynn, the deposed Catholic priest, are
prominent members The latter addressed a
large Sunday evening audience on the objects
Of the new crusade against poverty.
THREE persons-Peter Bruso, twelve years
old, Sarah McEvery, aged thirteen, and Mrs.
Henry Leury-were swept over Carglu Falls
at Putnam, Conn.,, and drowned.
CHARLES OSWALD, residing near Etna-
borough, Penn, smothered his little daughter
Bessie to death and then cut his own throat
with O penknife. Constant brooding over
domestic and financial troubles is supposed to
have caused insanity.
JUDGE HILTON has presented MISSIONER S
celebrated painting, "Friedland, 1907, which
brought 900 at the recent sale of Mrs.
A. T., Stewards pictures, to the New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
No. 10 BREAKER of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Co., at Sugar Notch, Penn, has
caught fire, entailing a loss of $6O, OOO. The
mine will have to be flooded ut great ex-
pense
THE schooner Louie O'Neill collided with
the schooner Thomas L. Parker in Lake Erie
during gale and was sunk. All on board
the O'Neill took to the yawl, and were saved
after enduring great hardship.
AT Nicholsville. N. Y, Charles Morrow
while drunk shot his wife and then himself.
Both died within few hours.
INTENSE heat compelled the temporary
closing down of many mills and factories in
Pittsburg, Penn, on Tuesday. At 4 P. NJ the
weather was the hottest ever known there at
this season, the thermometer being up to
ninety-five degrees.
UPWARD of 700 CANNES were exhibited at
the eleventh annual dog show in New York.
Numerous prizes were given.
A LOCOMOTIVES boiler exploded in round
house at New Haven, destroying the build
ing and more or less seriously injuring seven
men.
SIX persons in the Worcester (Mass.) Jail
overpowered a Waterman and escaped,
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THE ANIMAL WORLD.

Two birds fought so desperately over the
site of projected nest that they eventually
fell dead in the roadway, opposite the Theatre
Royal, London.
A CALIFORNIA opoSsum killed and ate a
setting hen and then sat on the eggs but these
were faithful to the memory OF their mother,
and would not hatch.
AN ivy-twineI retreat Of English sparrows
in the yard OF Thomas Cox, of Albany, Ga.,
yielded two bushels of nests and 1G4 eggs,
when he concluded to make raid upon 1t.
a DOG belonging to John Davidson, of New
castle, Penn, found it too cold nights out
doors, SO at eleven o'clock one night he pulled
the rope that rang the farm bell. The house
hold was alarmed, but the cause of the ring.
ing was soon apparent. The dog continued
his exercise at the same hour until he was
made comfortable in the house every night
A FLOCK of crows. says a western reporter,
who presents aftidavits touching his veracity,
saw dog dining on piece Of raw meat.
They Lit near him, and while one of them
nipped the dogs tail, causing him to turn
around, others in front snapped up the meat
and few away into a high tree, where the
flock finished the meal and pleasurably
watched the dog as he mourned his loss.
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LEAPING FOR FAME.
A Brooklyn Bridge Jumpers
Feat at Cincinnati.
Leaping From the High suspen-
sion Bridge Into the River.

Steve Brodie, the Brooklyn bridge jumper
from New York. saped from the Suspension
Bridge at Cincinnati, Monday afternoon into
the river, a distance of eighty two
feet. In the morning an insane man
leaped from the bridge at almost the same
place and was drowned. Bodies proposed
feat was known only to very few to prevent
interference by the authorities.
At 3:45 P. II. young man with BoWery
swagger, clad in a velveteen sack coat, striped
trousers and patent leather boots, left Vine
street restaurant; followed ut some distance
by coterie of newspaper men. Brodie carried
a canvas-bag containing his wardrobe. The
young man walked on to the bridge and looked
over at the water Though not in the centre
of the bridge he was over the centre Of the
channel, which is about 80 feet deep and ID
feet wide A very brisk wind was blowing
and the water was cold. A tug was secured
by the friends of Brodie and it was moved
into the channelnear the bridge.
The jumper took off his coat, leaped over
the railing and swinging for perhaps three
minutes facing south or down the river, let
20 his hold. He went like shot out of can
non, but the wind blowing up stream carried
him under the bridge.
Brodie appeared to those on the bridge to
strike the water Oh his back, but to those in
the tug ne seemed TO go under at an angie oI
sixty degrees The time of his descent was
about two seconds and two-thirds He was
under water about two seconds, and when
his head appeared he swan overhanded
slowly to the tug. A friend threw a rope to
him. The jumper had received some scratches
in his fall and was exhausted, but was all
right in few hours.
The Law and Order League, which had
wind of the affair, was outwitted. The feat
that Brodie accomplished at Cincinnati has
never been successfully attempted before. He
was complaining of stiffness and soreness at
late hour last night, but his physician said he
had not been seriously injured.
It is supposed that the unknown man who
jumped from the bridge in the morning was
insane He struck the water sideways and
sank All efforts to rescue him were futile.
Not over fifty people saw Brodie's leap,
which, though not considered impossible, was
looked upon as foolhardy and dangerous.
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At the present time the death sentence

At the present time the death sentence
is carried out by hanging or beheading
in every European state except Spain.
In Spain condemned persons arc exc
cuted by means of the garrote, steel
collar with a screw, which istarned until
it enters the spinal marrow at the base of
the brain. If the operation is skillfully
performed death is instantaneous, but
much agony has sometimes been caused
to convicts by the bungling of the execu-
toner. Hanging is the death punish
ment throughout the British Empire, ex-
cept in the case of soldiers, who are shot.
In France persons condemned to death
have, since the revolution, been dis
patched by the guillotine, and in most OF
the German States beheading is also IA
vored. In Austria, however, hanging is
the mode of execution.
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Some observations made in France by
NJ. Cosson may throw light upon many
mysterious fires. In one instance spon.
taneous firing arose from an air current
heated to seventy-seven degrees Fahren.
heit only. The wood slowly carbonized
at that temperature, and, being thus rem.
dered extremely porous, a rapid absorp'
tion of oxygen resulted, and sufficient
heat can then be produced to infame the
dry material. In another case the warmth
from the air-hole of stove was sufficient
to set fire to the woodwork.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-05-18
THE NATIONAL GAME.

TIE Brooklyns lead in the American Asso-
citation race.
HINES. Boston's old catcher, is considered
ono of the best catchers in the Southern
League.
THE Athletics have the credit Of inf1icting
the first whitewashing this year in the 2merl-
can Association. The MetropolitaLs were
the victims.
THE Southern League championship games
have SO far been close and exciting, indicating
that all the clubs are better matched than
was thought
THE Baltimore american says that it may
be considered as assured that the leading sec
ond-baseman of the international League this
season will be the colored man Grant OF the
Buffalos. He is one of the most active men
ever seen, and his plays are quick and precise
The standard of players is getting higher
every day, and the character and habits of
player are now carefully scrutinized before
he Is signed This is one OF the most hopeful
signs Of the regeneracy Of the game, as the
drinkers are being severely left alone by the
managers.
The first player Of the Pittsburgh Club to
make home run received handsome pres
ent from q Pittsburgh lady. Each OF the
Metropolitan players who gets batting ave
erage of over 800 will receive a suit OF
clothes Several other clubs have standing
offers of $40 for every ball put. over the fence.
PRESIDENT SpALD1NG says: ~ tell you the
Chicagos will be in the League race for the
pennant at the end of the season, and II they
do not come in first, it will be because the
New Yorks have knocked them out. l think
the New Yorks and Chicagos will have close
and exciting finish, similar to the one they
had in 1885"
GOLDSMITH, the old-time Chicago pitcher,
whose arm failed him some time ago, is try
ing to get himself in shape for another sea-
SON He is under the advice of Detroit phy-
sician, who thinks he can cure him. He has
already undergone the moxa treatment: That
is, he has had the muscles OF his arm bllstered
with a hot iron. similar to the treatment used
on the strained tendons Of race horsea
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Washington.

VALENTINE FLEcKENsTEIN has been ap-
pointed Postmaster and John W. Martin
Collector of Customs at Rochester, N. Y.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his wife will
be the guests of Professor Marsh, Of Yale
College, at the unveiling Of the soldiers and
sailors monument in New Haven, June II.
DURING April the public debt was reduced
S13,053098.T. Total cash in the treasury,
$3.50, l05, ,s164l; total debt, sl,7o4, ia, ,957.SS
UNITED STATES Treasury receipts for
April were 81, ,32l, ,2S7. II from customs, sl0,-
ia, 14S. 4G from internal revenue and 81, ,641,--
3T1. SO from miscellaneous, making total OF
$50, ,O76, ,657.46 The expenditures were SILL
9,17Os6 for ordinary, 81, 1876, ITO. s6 for pen
sions and So, ,764 42l. II for interest, making
total of $50, 229 ZOE. SO.
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QUEEN KAPIOLANI.
ROYAL Visitors From the Sandwich
Islands in Washington.

Islands in Washington.
Queen Kapiolani, of the Sandwich Islands,
accompanied by her sister, has been journey
ing across the continent on her way to Eu-
rope. A few days since she was received at
the White House by the President and Mrs.
Cleveland. Two hours later Mrs. Cleveland
and the Cabinet ladies called on the
Queen at her hotel. The royal visitors
spent several days in Washington and made Il
trip to Mount Vernon on the United States
steamer Dispatch. A dinner was also given
in their honor at the White House, the guests
including General and Mrs. Sheridan, Admir-
al and Mrs. Porter, Senator and Mrs. Sher'
man, Chief Justice and Mrs Waite and the
Cabinet circle.
Queen Kapiolani, says a correspondent, is =!
very dark and quite stout, but her bearing IS
stately and decidedly queenly, with just
little hauteur that may or may not arise from
embarrassment under the gaze of curious
strangers. She has recently put OH
mourning, worn since tho death OF
sister, for a period prescribed by the
Hawaiian court Her sister, the frm-
cess Liliuokalani still wears her mourning
Her toilet was a plain black dress and crepe
bonnet. She is Younger and taller than the
Queen Her face is very expressive anu Slie
is clever talker, speaking English Huentiy
Her husband, Gen. Dominis, who accompanies
the party. is an American, and this OF ltsell
would account for her knowledge OF t!e
language.